Interracial adoption agencies

Offer the experiences that you feel may appeal to your child, then support their choice. Can any of us honestly suggest that it would be better for a child to remain in this bureaucratic limbo than to be a son or daughter to loving parents whose skin is paler or darker than his or her own? Then we went back to reading our book. Instead, according to the Donaldson Institute and supporters of its study, the law had a chilling effect on agencies that might want to facilitate transracial adoptions, prohibiting them from preparing white parents for race-specific challenges they might face raising black children. The obstacle here is the reality that race does matter.

The Barker Adoption Foundation welcomes adoption applications from couples and individuals of all religious and ethnic backgrounds, and all sexual orientations and gender expressions. When it comes to experiences and interests, I am a firm believer in giving children options and letting them choose. The argument that black children should be placed with black families draws fire, while the preference of most white prospective adoptive parents for white children is accommodated without serious question. Nothing could be further from the truth. Should the skin color of the parents matter when deciding who is best to parent a child? Is it ideal for children to be raised by parents who look like them?